Quotes about Contemplation

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

Work might come later, but for now, he needed God's perspective. And the only way to get it was to stop, look, listen, and remember the goodness and greatness of Almighty God.

Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

A wise man once said nothing.

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.